Gough Whitlam dies aged 98 – his life in pictures

Edward Gough Whitlam as an RAAF recruit in 1942. Photograph: Whitlam Institute

Whitlam marries Margaret Dovey at St Michael's church in Vaucluse, Sydney, on 23 April 1942. Photograph: Whitlam Institute

Whitlam as leader of the Labor party, circa 1970. Photograph: Hulton Archive

With the singer Little Pattie, wearing T-shirts announcing 'It's time' as part of his Labor election campaign in 1972. Photograph: Graeme Fletcher/Hulton Archive

Interview with David Frost for Telecast on the Seven Network on 18 August 1973. Photograph: Australian information service

Whitlam talks to the press as prime minister in 1973. Photograph: Whitlam Institute

The Whitlam family, who were all together for the first time in 10 years, at the Berkeley hotel during a visit to London in 1973. Photograph: Douglas Miller/Hulton Archive

Gough and Margaret Whitlam meeting the prime minister of Burma in 1974. Photograph: Whitlam Institute

Gough Whitlam and the Soviet premier, Aleksei Kosygin, sign an agreement on scientific, technical and cultural collaboration in Moscow, 1975. Photograph: Express Newspapers/Hulton Archive

The Labor leader addresses reporters outside parliament in Canberra after his dismissal by the governor general during the constitutional crisis of 1975. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive

Whitlam with Malcolm Turnbull and Turnbull's legal client, the author and former MI5 spy Peter Wright, at the launch of Wright's Spycatcher book in 1988.
Photograph: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images

Gough Whitlam joins fellow former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and the newly elected Victorian premier Steve Bracks outside Parliament House in Melbourne in 1999 to support a national referendum on severing links with the British monarchy to become a republic.
Photograph: Will Burgess/Reuters

Whitlam is awarded the degree of doctor of letters at the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, on 6 April 2002. Photograph: Whitlam Institute

Gough and Margaret Whitlam speak at a ceremony inducting the couple as the first lifetime members of the Labor party at its national conference in Sydney in 2007.
Photograph: Jack Atley/Getty Images